Olympiacos “warmed up” for Belgrade!

Without encountering any particular resistance, but also without increasing his… revs enough, o Olympic passed comfortably through Patras, crashing 93-63 him Apolloin view of the difficult match in Belgrade against They were partisans (28/3, 21:30), in the Euroleague.

In the 20-2 now Piraeus in the Stoiximan Basket League, while on the other hand the tail group of Achaia retreated to 3-19.

His players are serious Giorgos Bartzokas for most of the game, having 13/26 3-pointers and sharing 28 assists.

All twelve “red and white” players scored, with the top scorer Kostas Papanikolaou with 16 points, while others 15p. added the Isaiah Canaanhaving 5/7 outside of 6.75m!

From Apollo, he stood out Chad Brown with 17 points and 11 rebounds.

The match

Apollo started with Brown, Osborne, Perkins, Coleman and Bessariou, while Olympiacos started with Fall, Peters, Papanikolaou, Kanan and Williams-Goss. The “red and white” came in serious and focused, where after the initial 0-7, they continued to force the Patrinos into many mistakes and with the three points of the “hot” Kanan they went to +17 (4-21), at 7′. Fal’s dunk then sent the lead to +20 (6-26), making the first period score 9-28.

Olympiacos maintained the same pace at the beginning of the second quarter where they initially went to +22 (16-38) and with a nail by Wright sent the difference to +24 (18-42), at 14′. With the entry of Blondin, Apollon improved offensively, with Larentzakis keeping the “red and whites” consistently at a long distance, namely at +19 (27-46), until 17′. There, Barzoka’s players slowed down, making mistakes and losing their rhythm, with three-pointers pushing the home team on an 8-0 run until the end of the first half (35-46).

Apollon took advantage of the slow start of Olympiakos in the second half and reduced the difference to single digits (40-48) in the first two minutes. There, the “red and white” stepped on… the gas and with Papanikolaou and Kanan they went on a 10-0 run, for +18 (40-58), in the 25th minute. Blondin aggressively kept the Patrinos, but the offensive versatility initially sent the Piraeus to +21 (48-69), while the end of the third period found them to +23 (50-73).

At the beginning of the fourth period, Peters and Wright sent Olympiacos to +27 (55-87). From that point on, the match became very free, with both teams just waiting for it to… end, the “red and whites” escaping to +29 (57-86) and taking the victory with the final 63-93.

The quarters: 9-28, 35-46, 50-73, 63-93

See here the match statistics

Watch the film of the match here